The Rural Voice, 1994-02, Page 33Coalition's goal is to build a three
acre butterfly garden in Centennial
Park. Ottawa has plans for a
"Monarch Meadow" in New
Edinburgh Park. With the help of
readily available information in your
local library, you, too, can enjoy a
butterfly garden while providing a
suitable habitat for these insects.
Admittedly, the so-called cabbage
butterflies or sulphurs, are
agricultural pests. However, in
people's minds butterflies rate highly
in the insect world.
Their importance can be judged by
the trilingual (English, French and
Spanish) "Monarca" exhibit at the
Canadian Museum of Nature in
Ottawa. This Monarch -specific
exhibit, after two years in the making,
and with help from scientists in both
the United States and Mexico, will,
after it closes in May, tour major
cities in these countries for the next
five years.
hen I interviewed Peers,
the project's leader, he
admitted that, "It was
quite a revelation to me,
the relationship between
Mexico and Canada and how the
Mexicans really looked to this
country for expertise in
environmental and conservation -
related issues."
Recently, in the hot and humid
Malayan Woods Pavilion at the
Metro Toronto Zoo, I stood with a
group of elementary school children
as their guide pointed out Malaysian
exhibits. More immediate for the
children, and for me, were the many
exotic butterflies, the Peacock
Pansies, Great Orange Tips, and
Striped Blue Crows from that far
away country which enveloped not
only the Pavilion's tropical
vegetation but performed ballets, got
in the children's hair and landed on
their notebooks.
Butterflies command attention;
they fascinate; they trigger innermost
thoughts. They model gentleness,
contentment and graceful behaviour
in a world which sometimes seems
wanting in these attributes.
Perhaps, since the reminders of
winter are still with us, we should
allow our imaginations free flight as
we recall the butterflies of summer.
"The butterflies are free," wrote
Charles Dickens. But are they?0
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